Development of anode supported Single Chamber Solid Oxide Fuel Cells running in air/methane mixture

Jean-Paul Viricelle (1, 2, 3) , Damien Rembelski (1, 3, 4) , Mathilde Rieu (1, 2, 3) , Lionel Combemale (5)

1 SPIN-ENSMSE - Centre Sciences des Processus Industriels et Naturels
2 LGF-ENSMSE - Laboratoire Georges Friedel
3 PRESSIC-ENSMSE - Procédés et REactivité des Systèmes Solide-gaz, Instrumentation et Capteurs
4 LPMG-EMSE - Laboratoire des Procédés en Milieux Granulaires
5 ICB - Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne

Single Chamber Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SCFC) show a growing interest and are the concern of more and more papers. In such device, anode and cathode are ex-posed to a gas mixture of fuel (hydrocarbon) and oxidant (air) so that no more sealing with electrolyte is necessary. Their operating principle is based on the different catalytic activities of anode and cathode: Ideally, the anode has to be active for the oxidation of fuel while the cathode should present only a strong electro-activity for oxygen reduction. In this paper, we present the development of an anode supported SCFC device running in air/methane mixture characterized by their volume ratio, Rmix = CH₄/O₂.

Mots clés: Single Chamber Solid Oxide Fuel Cells; SCFC; anode; air/methane mixture; NiO reduction

Domaines: Génie des procédés

Jean-Paul Viricelle, Damien Rembelski, Mathilde Rieu, Lionel Combemale. Development of anode supported Single Chamber Solid Oxide Fuel Cells running in air/methane mixture. IC3 (International Workshop of Ionically Conducting Ceramics for Catalysis), Sep 2013, Lyon, France. ⟨hal-00928513⟩